Everything you ever wanted to know about Czech Republic

31 December 2004

Area, total 78 868 km²
Percentage of selected land types
Agricultural land 54,1 %
- Arable land 71,6 %
Non-agricultural land 45,9 %
- Forest land 73,0 %
Number of municipalities, total 6 249
- Towns 527
Percentage of town population 70,2 %
Number of municipality parts 15 077
Population density 130 pers./km²

MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS
Gross domestic product at market prices 2 767 717 million CZK
- Per capita 271 161 CZK

POPULATION
Population: 31 December 10 220 577 persons
- Females 5 239 664
Population: by age, 31 December
0 - 14 14,9 %
15 - 64 71,0 %
65+ 14,0 %
Average age: 31 December 39,8 years
Expectation of life
(2003 - 2004 average)
- Males 72,55 years
- Females 79,04 years
Per 1 000 population
- Live births 9,6 ‰
- Deaths 10,5 ‰
- Immigrants 5,2 ‰
- Emigrants 3,4 ‰
- Total increase 0,9 ‰
- Marriages 5,0 ‰
- Divorces 3,2 ‰
- Abortions 4,0 ‰
Infant mortality 3,7 ‰

LABOUR
Average registered number of employees 3 198 855 actual persons
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing 127 982
- Industry 1 143 321
- Construction 161 902
Average monthly gross wage per employee 18 035 CZK
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing 13 171
- Industry 17 503
- Construction 18 071

Unemployment: 31 December
Registered job applicants 541 675 persons
- Females 276 254
- Graduates and juveniles 47 260
- Handicapped citizens 74 672
- Job applicants available 509 510
Vacancies, total 51 203 vacancies
Registered unemployment rate 9,47 %

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Registered entities: 31 December 2 352 601
- Legal persons, total 466 317
Business companies and partnerships 244 537
Cooperatives 13 334
State-owned enterprises 803
- Natural persons, total 1 886 284
Private entrepreneurs 1 674 595
Self-employed farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs 99 669

AGRICULTURE
Harvest
- Cereals, total 8 783 801 tonnes
- Potatoes, total 861 798 tonnes
- Rape 934 674 tonnes
Yields per hectare
- Cereals, total 5,46 tonnes
- Potatoes, total 23,96 tonnes
- Rape 3,60 tonnes
Livestock: 1 April 2005
- Cattle, total 1 397 308 heads
- Pigs, total 2 876 834 heads
- Poultry, total 25 372 333 heads
- Sheep 140 197 heads
Cattle farming intensity 38,5 heads/100 hectares
Pigs farming intensity 105,8 heads/100 hectares

FORESTRY
Afforestation/reforestation, total 19 042 hectares
Timber removal, total 15 601,4 thous. m³ u. b.

INDUSTRY
Number of enterprises 8 184
Sales of own goods and services
incidental to industry 2 371 494 CZK mil. current prices

CONSTRUCTION
Number of enterprises 2 404
Construction work of contractors and subcontractors 278 207 CZK mil.
current prices
Housing construction
Dwellings started 39 037
Dwellings under construction: 31 Dec. 146 801
Dwellings completed 32 268
- Per 1 000 inhabitants 3,2
Dwellings modernized 15 469

TOURISM
Collective accomodation establishments for tourist, total 7 640
- Beds 433 214
Guests in collective accommodation establishments 12 219 689 persons
- Foreigners 6 061 225

TRANSPORT
Length of class I roads 6 156,4 km
Length of class II roads 14 668,7 km
Registered vehicles: 31 December 5 997 306
- Passenger cars 3 815 547
- Commercial vehicles 371 437
- Buses and coaches 19 948

EDUCATION
Nursery schools 4 776
- Children 280 487 persons
- Per class 23,1 persons
Basic schools 3 785
- Pupils, total 917 738 persons
- Per class 21,4 persons
Grammar schools 345
- Pupils, initial study 142 374 persons
Secondary technical schools 812
- Pupils, initial study 208 929 persons
Secondary vocational schools 514
- Pupils, initial study 175 975 persons
Higher professional schools 174
- Pupils, initial study 25 033 persons

HEALTH
Physicians (f/t equiv. persons) 40 371 persons
- Per 1 000 population 4,0
- In non-state establishments 32 409
Inhabitants per physician 253
Paramedical personnel 105 077 persons
Hospitals 197
- Beds 65 488
- Per 1 000 population 6,4
- Physicians 8 867 f/t equiv. persons
Specialized therapeutic institutions 166
- Beds 23 189
- For long-term patients 73
- Beds 7 272
Independent surgeries of general practitioners
- For adults 4 460
- For children and adolescents 2 107
- Stomatologists 5 419
Out-patient care physicians
per 10 000 inhabitants 28,6 f/t equiv. persons
Pharmacies and dispensaries 2 302
Incapacity for work
Average number of the sickness insured 4 389 251 persons
Incapacity work for work on average 5,857 %
- Due to disease 5,256
- Due to industrial injury 0,222
- Due to other injury 0,379

SOCIAL SECURITY
Social care establishments, total 1 073
- Beds 79 074
- Retirement homes 373
- Beds 37 366
Pension recipients, total 2 625 685 persons
- Full old-age pension 1 371 420
Average monthly amount of pension, total 7 118 CZK
- Full old-age pension 7 270

CRIME, TRAFIC ACCIDENTS, FIRES
Ascertained offences 351 090
- Per 1 000 population 34,4
Traffic accidents, total 196 484
- Per 1 000 population 19,3
- Killed persons 1 215 persons
- Severely injured persons 4 878 persons
- Property damage 9 687,4 CZK mil.
Fires, total 21 191
- Killed persons 126
- Property damage 1 669,3 CZK mil.

Source: Czech Statistical Office